TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matondi,Prosper Bvumiranayi
AU  - Havnevik,Kjell J.
AU  - Atakilte Beyene.
ED  - Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
TI  - Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa
T2  - Africa now
SN  - 9781848138797 (alk. paper)
AV  - HD9502.5.B543 A56 
U1  - 363.8096 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Energy crops industry
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Africa
KW  - Land use, Rural
KW  - Food security
KW  - biofuels
KW  - agrovoc
KW  - natural resources
KW  - food security
KW  - africa
KW  - Biobränslen
KW  - Afrika
KW  - sao
KW  - Naturresurser
N1  - "Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = The Nordic Africa Institute."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-220) and index; Grabbing of African lands for energy and food : implications for land rights, food security and smallholders / Kjell Havnevik -- Biofuel governance : a matter of discursive and actor intermesh / Marie Widengård -- Peak oil and climate change : triggers of the drive for biofuel production / Rune Skarstein -- Attracting foreign direct investment in Africa in the context of land grabbing for biofuels and food security / Prosper B. Matondi and Patience Mutopo -- Smallholder-led transformation towards biofuel production in Ethiopia / Atakilte Beyene -- Biofuel, land and environmental issues : the case of SEKAB's biofuel plans in Tanzania / Kjell Havnevik and Hanne Haaland -- Agro-investments in Zimbabwe at a time of redistributive land reforms / Prosper B. Matondi -- Competition between biofuel and food? : evidence from a jatropha biodiesel project in Northern Ghana / Festus Boamah -- Conclusion : land grabbing, smallholder farmers and the meaning of agro-investor-driven agrarian change in Africa / Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene
N2  - Examines the effects of large-scale biofuel production, seen as having a positive impact on African national economies and greenhouse gases. Finds negative implications as well, especially in developmental and environmental areas
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011284618-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011284618-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011284618-t.html
ER  -